Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Processes – Molding – casting – or shaping
Patent
1992-10-23
1995-02-21
Yeung, George
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Processes
Molding, casting, or shaping
425116, 425134, 425348R, 425361, 426 5, 426514, 426660, A23G 300, A23P 100
Patent
active
053913876
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing confectionery and similar products shaped, at least on the external surface, according to a preselected design. The invention also relates to a machine for carrying out said process and to the shaped final products.
Confectionery products such as chewing gum and bubble gum products, soft candies, toffees etcetera, are mass-produced with very high outputs per hour. Methods to produce them in symmetrical shapes, such as spherical, cylindrical or ellipsoidal shapes, are known in the art. On the contrary it is not possible to obtain them with shapes reproducing fancy objects, nor is it possible to obtain such products with their surface shaped according to a selected design, i.e. with a plurality of shaped lines and areas formed in high- or bas-relief.
The aim of the present invention is to solve the above mentioned problem by providing a way of industrially producing shaped confectionery products with a high output per hour in a simple and economical way.
Another aim of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for carrying out the above referred to industrial process.
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a process for manufacturing confectionery products, comprising the steps of: producing an intermediate product which is plastically deformable and has a smaller size than a desired final product; positioning said intermediate product in a mold having a preselected shape; connecting an interior portion of said intermediate product to a source of pressurized fluid; feeding said pressurized fluid into said intermediate product interior portion to conform said intermediate product to said preselected shape of said mold to produce said final product; disconnecting said final product from said fluid source; and extracting said final product from said mold.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a confectionery product molded to a preselected shape and having a plurality of molded areas and lines on its outer surface.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided apparatus for producing shaped confectionery products, comprising: a plurality of upper and lower mold parts; positioning means for positioning intermediate products in said mold parts; fluid feeding means for feeding pressurized fluid into an inner portion of each intermediate product to produce said shaped products; and extractor means for removing said shaped products from said mold parts.
Preferred features and embodiments of the present invention are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a side view, partially sectioned, of a preferred embodiment of an apparatus according to the invention;
FIG. 2 is a front view, partially sectioned, of the apparatus of FIG. 1;
FIGS. 3 to 5 are enlarged side views, in partial section, of the apparatus of FIG. 1 and show sequential steps of the invention process;
FIGS. 6 to 11 are side and top enlarged views, in partial section, of details of the apparatus according to the invention; and
FIGS. 12 and 13 are partially sectioned side and front views, respectively, of a further embodiment of an apparatus according to the invention.
With reference to the accompanying drawings, reference 1 generally refers to an apparatus for the production of shaped candy products 2 reproducing a predetermined design.
Apparatus 1 comprises a plurality of lower half molds 11 and upper half molds 14, feeding means 5 for feeding intermediate products 2, i.e. the raw confectionery products to be shaped, to the lower half molds, and means 12 for temporarily closing together upper and lower molds 11 and 14. Moreover, apparatus 1 comprises fluid feeding means 16, 21 that are connectable to the interior portion of the intermediate products 2 and to a source of pressurized fluid (not shown), and extractor means for extracting the shaped product from the molds 11 or 14.
In the preferred embodiment disclosed in the drawings, the upper molds 14 are
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